The Black Hole

[Dolemite]

I haven't seen this movie since I was a kid. I remember being entertained by it back in the day, and Disney just released it on DVD, so I rented it the other day and watched it.

It's Disney's first ever PG-rated movie, originally released in 1979, in an attempt to cash in on the whole Star Wars craze. In short:

Crew of spaceship, including Norman Bates, Cabbie, some guy that looks like Fred Ward, a prissy English teacher looking chick with "robo-ESP" and a cute flying garbage can-like R2-D2 rip-off, are cruising through space when they detect a Black Hole, THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE. Hovering near it, unaffected by the gravity pull, they find the Cygus, a ship long thought lost. The land on it and hang with Dr. Hans Reinheart (who wants to travel into the Black Hole) and his mack daddy ginzu robot, Maxlimillian. Reinheart is a bad guy, the good guys fight his army of robots (whose aim is worse than even Stormtroopers, Cobra Vipers, or members of the A-Team). Omg, can they escape?!?

It's still entertaining, but in a totally different way now...the camp value is pretty high. The effects (for the most part) haven't aged well (matte paintings are very obvious, and you can clearly see the wires holding actors and robots up), the dialogue is fairly cheesy, and the acting is pretty bad. The two good robots (Bob and Vincent) look like floating garbage cans with great big goofy cartoon eyes. Bob especially needs to be blown up, he's so fucking annoying.

On the plus side, the production work is top notch...the designs of the Cygnus and the robot Maximillian are elegant and just damn cool, the robot guards weild slick double barreled laser guns and the movie had a nice grim, somber tone, at least when it wasn't trying to be all gay and cutesy.

Overall, it was both cool and super-cheesy at the same time. But WTF is up with that bizarre, ripped-off from 2001, robot sex ending?

[BRAD73]

I haven't seen this movie since I was a kid. I remember being entertained by it back in the day, and Disney just released it on DVD, so I rented it the other day and watched it.

It's Disney's first ever PG-rated movie, originally released in 1979, in an attempt to cash in on the whole Star Wars craze. In short:

Crew of spaceship, including Norman Bates, Cabbie, some guy that looks like Fred Ward, a prissy English teacher looking chick with "robo-ESP" and a cute flying garbage can-like R2-D2 rip-off, are cruising through space when they detect a Black Hole, THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE. Hovering near it, unaffected by the gravity pull, they find the Cygus, a ship long thought lost. The land on it and hang with Dr. Hans Reinheart (who wants to travel into the Black Hole) and his mack daddy ginzu robot, Maxlimillian. Reinheart is a bad guy, the good guys fight his army of robots (whose aim is worse than even Stormtroopers, Cobra Vipers, or members of the A-Team). Omg, can they escape?!?

It's still entertaining, but in a totally different way now...the camp value is pretty high. The effects (for the most part) haven't aged well (matte paintings are very obvious, and you can clearly see the wires holding actors and robots up), the dialogue is fairly cheesy, and the acting is pretty bad. The two good robots (Bob and Vincent) look like floating garbage cans with great big goofy cartoon eyes. Bob especially needs to be blown up, he's so fucking annoying.

On the plus side, the production work is top notch...the designs of the Cygnus and the robot Maximillian are elegant and just damn cool, the robot guards weild slick double barreled laser guns and the movie had a nice grim, somber tone, at least when it wasn't trying to be all gay and cutesy.

Overall, it was both cool and super-cheesy at the same time. But WTF is up with that bizarre, ripped-off from 2001, robot sex ending?

I seen this at the movies when I was a kid, my favorite part is probably the trash can shootem' show down, the laser effects are pretty cool. It's like Disney's sci-fi B-rated movie with the acting being so cheesey and all. Maximillion is a pretty ruthless bot and what about the fact that all of the previous crew were turned in to some kind of droids with mirror faces. That part freaked me out as a kid. I still watch this movie from time to time when it comes on cable but I wouldn't mind owning it either.

[voltz]

This had the darkest feel compared to other disney films, even moreso then Tron.

[Timber]

I havent see this in ages and just the other day I picked up a widescreen vhs copy of it for a dollar. I'm gonna try and watch it sometime this weekend.

[Dolemite]

"I'd buy that for a dollar!"